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thanks E.
yeah watching them dive is really cool but i'd keep my distance with those beaks, they look pretty effective. -
keep a little hip pouch of pre-written Post-It notes handy;
in ambiguous situations simply stick the Post-It to the appropriate body part to aid context comprehension -
hopefully the atmosphere was moist enough that the croissant turned soggy pretty quickly. besides, i've seen seagulls chug back all sorts of dry stuff and they seem to be ok, if not a bit dyspeptic for a while.
knowing those rajas the mollymawk eye was probably more fitting.
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its heart won't be allowed to break K
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the monks would have been especially thilled by the photo then.
i love gannets as least as much as seaguls. and albatrosses, also single pairers, they have such compassionate eyes. unlike the mollymawk in my opinion, who totally look like albatross turned acid freaks.
there are also neat aircraft that go by the names of gannet (english) and albatross (cherman).they are sacred, the sea birds, because they live in all 3 elements, we cannot
i first read this as "they are not scared the sea birds, because they live in all 3 elements, we cannot". they never do seem scared. even when they are in distress, they just look inconvenienced.
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i've added a "discusion of usuage disambiguation" link to the wiki.
if i get to choose, can i have "Bishop Hairless Pink Guinea Pig With the Words and Stuff the Pious"?
of course you can come m. the surf at tawhas was non-existent but it was beautiful nonetheless.
and thank you Jen, like m i found it too interesting, so please don't be a stranger.
and thanks for "leet" Emma
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My greatest fear is being on a plane during a hijack by grammar terrorists
David, there is a secret password: "Usage determines propriety"
they will leave you unharmed.Deborah
I was the person who got a chocolate fish for using "theatre" in a staff meeting.
I hope they looked at you funny.
i dreamt of being in a crowded lobby, perhaps it was the Aotea, and hearing a loan "theatre", followed by a disjointed and erratic "chorus" of "theatre"s, with everyone looking at each other funny save for a few who were giggling happily. it was kind of a flash-theatering.Che
i managed to ask if this industrial research grant was in fact "some kind of wishy-washy arts grant".
it drew very strange looks.
but made my day, all the same.
I believe the strange looks and feeling good for it are much in the spirit of the "theatre" Bishop Che. (where have all the Bishops gone already? i don't know, you leave the known world for a couple of days and all the piety evaporates to heathen sin.)merc
I know some hamsters who know some cats
i have searched my soul long and hard while away from the machines and to my shame must agree it was wrong to give Che half of your share. let's keep the palm oil 50/50 and Che can have 5% of my royalties. if you wanted to contribute 5% of yours i'm sure that will help with the HP payments for the Porsche he bought and furnaced perhaps a tad prematurely. just keep the killer-hamsters away from the cats - we don't wants to be going there.Assoc-Prof Jen Hay (Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury) tells me that "I call theatre on this thread" is to use it as a noun, not a verb
And do you know, I troubled myself with this throughout my retreat. Eventually I theatered myself so I could get some sleep.
I wondered with 3410 at the time of writing the origin amendment to Che’s entry, if a full account of the "unintended corruption of fire in a theatre” during a consideration of the limits of free speech, should be included. Che was right in my opinion to classify it primarily as a verb although the initial usage example ("I call theatre on this thread") is erroneous and does employ it as a noun. It should be "I theatre this thread".
And like Rob Stowell, I also considered describing it as an ejaculation (either declarative or imperative), but then that term has undergone such semantic narrowing that I figured people would just look at it funny, but not in the intended way (unless they happened to know the grammatical sense).AP Jen said when you yell out 'theatre" in a crowded theatre, it still remains a noun you are yelling out, just like if you yelled out "fire" you'd be yelling a noun, and if you yelled out "run!" you'd be yelling a verb. It is true, we would have been once calling out a noun. But in the PA usage, as merc notes, it is more akin to "RUN", "STOP", "SURRENDER [me or you]", or "DESIST"; but also "GET THEE A LIFE", “HUMPF” or “PFNARR”. So here lies some of the complexity because while I would suggest its primary function as a single-form verbal imperative, it can be merely an ejaculation too, expressing exasperation, assent (with a previously drawn absurdity), or joy arising from absurdity.
Emma invoked the gerund and I suspect there is also a gerund form being used here, further adding to the confusion, but derived from the specific verb form referred to herein, as in “I enjoyed the theatering”. (I also spent some of my weekend thinking about the pejoration of the feminine forms of gendered cognates Master/Mistress, King/Queen, dog/bitch, Sir/Madam – none of the masculine forms are used as an insult, but each of the feminine equivalents have come to also be used pejoratively, but that’s another story.)
The absurdism is important because I like to think of The T Word as a single-form koan or for those who feel more comfortable with IT analogies. it is meant to stop the mind long enough for the reader to remember we can be one and we can be happy. So in that sense it is simultaneously an imperative and a declarative, and the distinction between nouns and verbs becomes immaterial. AP Hay observes that this seem quite a strange semantic extension of the word. And I would agree that it is.
Rob S is correct in stating [AP Hay] is right, since even absurdities require semantics to make them absurd (it’s a wonderful truth to me that order is required to define and make disorder). But prettily the original call of "theatre" in a theatre, "theatre" fairly clearly refers to a theatre.... isn’t so. Indeed, the original call of “theatre” in a theatre, actually referred to a “fire”, which of course is far from clear, and hence we come back to the absurdity.
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m, I saw seagulls on my travels. Young and old black-backs wondering in a field of grass, and a red-beak with its head and neck soundly planted in a sand dune. It looked like it had just dived in and its wings were still in a perfect W. My companion said it mustn’t have died naturally because if it had it would’ve gone out to sea to do it, and my mind wandered off again on what “natural” could mean. For once I didn’t get to feed the seagulls, but I threw out some stale croissant on to the beach. They probably got them but I didn’t see it.
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i'm still getting over this...
that's an IN JOKE between me and Che
Hadyn, that's ok, I get it all the time. "Ah ya bunny..." this and "what a freakin' rabbit..." that. and some people have accused me of just being in it for the wood shavings and shiney new activity wheels. alac, we soldier on. at least i have here found some sense of community.
i thought we had made Deborah a Bishop already? we can't start giving her absurd titles on top of that, what would Bishop Brian say?